Posted by: White Stripes

the listings with screwy looking characters are for foreign language fonts (asian mostly) that your PC is not set to display

technically its winmx being written for an ansi OS lacking unicode support.... not the computer or modern OSens fault... win95 needs some serious tweaking to support unicode and even then its still a hack... dont forget how old winmx really is...

but bluey is right runt.... 3.53 is the last 'stable' and 3.54 beta 4 is the 'newest' beta and since frontcode is gone its also the very last release.... there are no further versions... (you can however go back in time but its not really recommended...)

Posted by: Bluey_412

Again, Runt, your messages are from Bearshare, which has NOTHING to do with winmx

The last REAL version of winMX is 3.54b4

The attacks mentioned previously and in many other places are the reason for the peculiar search results, while the listings with screwy looking characters are for foreign language fonts (asian mostly) that your PC is not set to display

Posted by: GhostShip

All of the clients you mention that deliver virus filled results are gnutella network based and thus it makes sense for the cartel to hit that network as they get to annoy multiple clients for the price of one.

Old bearshare like winmx has a strong support crew who take care of it and have a few folks like "Arron Walkhouse" blocking the cartel after the original company was taken over by the cartels goons (Imesh), new versions (ver 6 and above) of bearshare are simply cartel company re-labelled junk I urge no one to use the newer versions.

PS: In case its not clear to some of you WinMX 4.9.0 is nothing to do with winmx its some limewire knock off with a similar name and price tag for invisible support , there are many folks who get misled and ripped off off by such companies every year, make sure your not one of them.

Posted by: RUNT66

ok gang , i have 3.54b4 , i have done a search for cher and have 1040 results ; problem one , 90 per cent of the results have nothing to do with cher , for example , owl city - fireflies.mp3 ; problem 2 ; 70 per cent are in a strange script , for example , ffg)(&^#><.mp3 .

Posted by: White Stripes

@runt; i think 'Valjean' was a spammer as they 'glitched' the thread name with random characters.....

as for your answer 'winmx music' isnt the original winmx.... there is no winmx 4.9.0 ..... as taffy said the 'real' winmx can be had at http://patch.winmxconex.com -- versions 3.53 and 3.54b4 are as new as it gets....

Posted by: White Stripes

as someone who has waited in line to download ~20kb jpeg files before i doubt the size has anything to do with it... if this bypass does occur it would seem filetype (and possibly other factors such as uploader connection speed and if they are primary/secondary) would play a role in it as well....

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ; NEED MORE SOURCES ; AND ; AWAITING SOURCES ; ???

im not sure i fully understand your question but 'awaiting sources' would show when attempting to connect to found sources of a multisource download.... 'need more sources' i am unclear on what you mean.... i am not aware of such a message exsisting in the winmx application....